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HEARINGS 


BEFORE    THE 


COMMITTEE  ON  WOMAN  SUFFRAGE 

UNITED  STATES  SENATE 

SIXTY-FOURTH  CONGRESS 

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30  WOMAN    SUFFRAGE. 

ter],  and  in  the  name  of  the  national  association,  Mr.  Chairman 
and  gentlemen  of  this  committee,  we  thank  you  for  your  patience, 
and  consider  the  hearing  of  the  National  Suffrage  Association  closed. 

The  CHAIRMAN.  A  meeting  has  been  called  for  to-morrow  morning 
at  the  request  of  the  Congressional  Union,  at  10  o'clock  a.  m.,  in  this 
hall,  and  inasmuch  as  the  chairman  has  some  other  engagements  that 
may  prove  embarrassing,  and  may  make  it  impossible  for  him  to  be 
here  all  the  time,  I  shall  ask,  with  the  approval  of  the  committee, 
that  Senator  Sutherland  preside  on  that  occasion.  This  meeting 
is  now  adjourned. 

Dr.  MARY  WALKER.  One  moment,  Mr.  Chairman ;  will  you  appoint 
a  time  for  the  opposition  to  be  heard,  as  is  customary  ? 

The  CHAIRMAN.  We  will  when  the  proper  time  arrives,  but  not 
at  an  individual  request. 

(Thereupon,  at  12  o'clock  noon,  the  committee  adjourned  until  to- 
morrow, December  16, 1915,  at  10  o'clock  a.  m.) 


SECOND  DAY. 

THURSDAY,   DECEMBER   16,    1915. 

UNITED  STATES  SENATE, 
COMMITTEE  ON  WOMAN  SUFFRAGE, 

Washington,  D.  C. 

The  committee  met  at  10  o'clock  a.  m.,  pursuant  to  adjournment, 
being  called  to  order  by  Senator  Sutherland  (presiding). 

Present:  Senators  Thomas  (chairman),  Ransdell,  Hollis,  Suther- 
land, Jones,  Clapp,  and  Catron. 

Senator  SUTHERLAND  (presiding).  This  meeting  has  been  called 
this  morning  to  hear  the  representatives  of  the  Congressional  Union, 
and  Miss  Anne  Martin,  representing  that  union,  will  have  control 
of  the  time.  Miss  Martin,  we  will  be  glad  to  hear  you  now. 

STATEMENT  OF  MISS  ANNE  MARTIN,  OF  NEVADA. 

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Miss  MARTIN.  Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  committee,  one 
of  our  chief  purposes  in  asking  this  hearing  before  the  Woman 
Suffrage  Committee  of  the  Senate  is  to  bring  before  you  not  only 
the  ethical  importance,  but  the  political  urgency  of  the  settlement  of 
this  question  of  national  suffrage  for  women.  Under  present  con- 
ditions the  thought  and  the  strength  of  large  numbers  of  women 
throughout  the  country  are  concentrated  and  absorbed  by  this  cam- 
paign to  win  fundamental  justice  for  the  women  of  the  country, 
which  prevents  their  giving  their  help  in  the  settlement  of  matters 
vitally  affecting  the  interests  of  the  men* and  women  and  children  of 
the  Nation. 

This  question  is  assuming  larger  and  larger  proportions  in  the 
minds  of  the  women  all  over  the  country,  and  must  continue  to  do  so 
until  it  is  settled,  and  settled  justly  by  the  submission  of  the  Susan 
B.  Anthony  amendment  to  the  legislatures  of  the  several  States  for 
ratification. 

We  therefore  again  ask  you  to  consider  the  political  urgency  of 
this  question  of  woman  suffrage  in  the  Sixty-fourth  Congress. 

Our  plan  this  morning  is  to  have  a  number  of  speakers  make  short 
speeches  of  five  minutes  each  until  we  get  to  the  last  half  hour  of 
our  time,  when  the  last  half  hour  will  be  divided  between  the  envoys 
of  the  Women  Voters'  Convention.  We  must  finish  our  hearing  this 
morning  by  half  past  11,  owing  to  the  fact  that  the  only  time  we 
could  get  a  hearing  before  the  Committee  on  the  Judiciary  of  the 
House  is  this  morning  at  half  past  11.  Therefore  we  are  compelled 
to  finish  our  hearing  by  that  time  in  order  that  we  may  attend  the 
session  of  the  Committee  on  the  Judiciary  of  the  House. 

Our  first  speaker  will  be  Mrs.  William  Spencer  Murray,  of  Con- 
necticut, the  secretary  of  the  Women's  Political  Union  of  Con- 
necticut. 

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